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The Dirty 30s

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at CSU East Bay Kevin P. Dincher www.kevindincher.com. The Worst Hard Time. The Dirty 30s. The Dirty 30s. Louisiana Swing (1954) Bud Hobbs. The Dirty 30s. Oklahoma! 1930 : Green Grow the Lilacs Rollie Lynn Riggs ( 1899 – 1954)

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The Dirty 30s

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  1. Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at CSU East Bay Kevin P. Dincher www.kevindincher.com The Worst Hard Time The Dirty 30s

  2. Kevin P. Dincher The Dirty 30s • Louisiana Swing (1954) • Bud Hobbs

  3. Kevin P. Dincher The Dirty 30s • Oklahoma! • 1930: Green Grow the Lilacs • Rollie Lynn Riggs (1899 – 1954) • Claremore, OK Territory (1906) • 1943: Broadway Musical • Rogers and Hammerstein • 1955: Film • Shirley Jones • Gordon MacRae

  4. Kevin P. Dincher The Dirty 30s Did you see…?

  5. Kevin P. Dincher The Dirty 30s Have you read…?

  6. Kevin P. Dincher The Dirty 30s Have you read…

  7. Kevin P. Dincher The Dirty 30s Have you read…?

  8. Kevin P. Dincher The Worst Hard Time The Dirty 30s

  9. Kevin P. Dincher The Dirty 30s Everything’s Related! • California • America’s Self-image • Manifest Destiny • Progressive Era • Gilded Age • Conservation/Environmentalism • Dust Bowl

  10. Kevin P. Dincher The Dirty 30s The Dust Bowl

  11. Kevin P. Dincher The Dirty 30s The Great Plains

  12. Kevin P. Dincher The Dirty 30s The American Prairie

  13. Kevin P. Dincher The Dirty 30s The Face of the Depression

  14. Kevin P. Dincher The Dirty 30s The Newsreel • Hearst Metrotone News (1914–1967) • PathéNews (1910–1956) • RKO Radio Pictures (1931 to 1947) • Warner Brothers (1947 to 1956) • Paramount News (1927–1957) • Fox Movietone News (1928–1963) • Universal Newsreel (1929–1967 • The March of Time (1935–1951)

  15. Kevin P. Dincher The Dirty 30s 1935 – 1943: Works Progress Administration (WPA) (1939: Work Projects Administration) • Goal • Provide one paid job for all families in which the breadwinner suffered long-term unemployment. • Cost • 1938: $1.4 billion • Total: $13.4 billion • Jobs Provided • 1938: 3.3 million employees • Total: Employed almost 8 million people

  16. Kevin P. Dincher The Dirty 30s Hoover Dam Constructed: 1931 – 1936

  17. Kevin P. Dincher The Dirty 30s Golden Gate Bridge Constructed: 1933 – 1937

  18. Kevin P. Dincher The Dirty 30s San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Constructed: 1933 – 1936

  19. Kevin P. Dincher Works Progress Administration (WPA) CA Highway 1 Completed: 1937 Bixby Canyon Bridge 1932

  20. Kevin P. Dincher The Dirty 30s • Coit Tower • 1933 • Murals were done under the auspices of the Public Works of Art Project • The first of the New Deal federal employment programs for artists

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  23. Kevin P. Dincher The Dirty 30s Cradle Will Rock: 1999 Tim Robbins film: chronicles the process and events that surrounded the production of the original 1937 musical The Cradle Will Rock written by Marc Blitzstein and financed by the WPA Federal Theater Project

  24. Kevin P. Dincher The Dirty 30s Tex Ritter

  25. The Dirty 30s • 1935 – 1936: Resettlement Administration (RA) • 1937 – 1945: Farm Security Administration (FSA) • Goal: • Move 650,000 people from 100 million acres • Objections: • Socialistic • Tenant Farmers

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  27. The Dirty 30s • 1935 – 1936: Resettlement Administration (RA) • 1937 – 1945: Farm Security Administration (FSA) • Results: Few thousand moved from 9,000,000 acres • 200 Greenbelt communities/cities • Relief camps for about 75,000 migrant workers in California • Film, photography and folk song projects

  28. The Dirty 30s • Resettlement Administration (RA) • Folk Songs Project • Sidney Robertson Cowell (1903 – 1995) • 1936 – 1957: collected music • More than 100 hours of songs • Archive of Folk Culture, Library of Congress • WPA Northern CA Music Project: • The first large-scale effort to collect ethnic recordings in a region. • Oct. 28, 1938: Officially opened on at 2108 Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley. • 1940: shut down when funding was not renewed.

  29. The Dirty 30s • Resettlement Administration (RA) • Film Project • The Plow that Broke the Plains (1936) • The River (1938)

  30. The Dirty 30s • Resettlement Administration (RA) • Photography Project • Dorothea Lange (1895 – 1965) • Walker Evans (1903 – 1975) • Arthur Rothstein (1915 – 1985) • The Dust Bowl Through the Lens: How Photography Revealed and Helped Remedy a National Disaster (Martin W. Sandler)

  31. The Dirty 30s Dorothea Lange (1895 – 1965) • Columbia University • Apprenticed under • Clarence White • Arnold Genthe • 1918: San Francisco • Great Depression • Resettlement Administration (RA) • Farm Security Administration (FSA)

  32. The Dirty 30s Migrant Mother, 1936 Florence Owens Thompson

  33. The Dirty 30s Daughter of Migrant Tennessee Coal Miner

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  36. The Dirty 30s Mississippi Delta Children

  37. The Dirty 30s Children in San Francisco pledge allegiance to the American flag in April 1942

  38. The Dirty 30s Japanese-owned grocery store in Oakland, CA on March 30, 1942, two days before internment notices appeared.

  39. The Dirty 30s The Enemy (1942)

  40. The federal government suppressed most of the photographs she was hired to take during WWII. • 97% of the images she took during the Japanese internment in California were never published. The Dirty 30s Tagged Girl (1942)

  41. The Dirty 30s Walker Evans (1903 – 1975)

  42. The Dirty 30s Allie Mae Burroughs

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  45. The Dirty 30s Arthur Rothstein (1915 – 1985)

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  47. John Frederick of Grant County, North Dakota, shows how high his wheat would grow if there were no drought, (1936) The Dirty 30s

  48. Drought refugees from South Dakota. (Montana, 1936) The Dirty 30s

  49. Nursery school, FSA camp, Harlingen, Texas. Member of mother's committee watches (1942) The Dirty 30s

  50. Fruit tramps from California who have come to the Yakima Valley (Washington) for apple thinning. (1936) The Dirty 30s

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